> by mainstream historians and anthropologists Indeed it is but mainstream historians and anthropologists are not the arbiters of good science. The criticisms,

> by mainstream historians and anthropologists Indeed it is but mainstream historians and anthropologists are not the arbiters of good science. The criticisms, that I'm aware of, come down to incomplete research on Yali (not a critical aspect of the narrative and absent from The Third Chimpanzee) and an over-enthusiastic pre-emptive argument against a neo-darwinian interpretation of genetic data. I agree with carterklein13, Guns, Germs, and Steel is near the top of my list of influential books.